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HereSince1628

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12. You know, about 80% of people with mental illness don't seek clinical help

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 08:18 PM

Oct 2015

So there is a good chance that even if he suffered from a mental disorder it went undiagnosed.

Some of this is that many mental disorders don't significantly impair an individual's capacity to meet minimal demands of daily functioning. But even for serious mental disorders, a significant fraction of people never seek clinical help.

Of course that won't prevent people in the media from probing family and acquaintences for 'signs' in an attempt to build that narrative.

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Fuck this Oregon shooter, I don't want to know his name....I don't want to know his motives. [View all] Augiedog Oct 2015 OP

This state representative of the Community College should be proud Jim Beard Oct 2015 #1

I want to know how he got the guns mainstreetonce Oct 2015 #2

I just read a post in another thread Glassunion Oct 2015 #10

I guess it doesn't matter HassleCat Oct 2015 #3

Very cynical. ZX86 Oct 2015 #4

I want to hear a plan from the President. WDIM Oct 2015 #5

I was living literally 1 block from the Thurston High School shooting. Binkie The Clown Oct 2015 #6

I want to know if he had an untreated mental illness. closeupready Oct 2015 #7

You know, about 80% of people with mental illness don't seek clinical help HereSince1628 Oct 2015 #12

What if he were Muslim, would you want to know nothing then about the guy and his motives? Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #8

Nor do I, deny him the infamy/ notoriety etherealtruth Oct 2015 #9

Sadly, the media will make him famous. Glassunion Oct 2015 #11